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ScratchMonkey · 06-02-2009, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Wyzcrak

The best part, for me, was the 3D.

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Originally Posted by CingularDuality

I think it might lack just a little bit of depth...

bangaaqueen · 06-08-2009, 05:11 AM

I was going to watch up.. Instead I saw Terminator:Salvation with my buddies. It's a really nice movie with plenty of explosions and what not.

Uchiha Obito · 06-08-2009, 12:26 PM

Just saw this over the weekend, not a bad movie. I enjoyed it ok, it did feel like maybe it was over too soon, but be warned the movie is really sad which is amazing in a movie with almost no dialogue for the first ten minutes it felt like Wall-E all over again.

Side note, was Alpha voiced by the same VA who does Invader Zim?

**Spyder228** · 06-08-2009, 01:45 PM

I saw it this weekend in 2D. I'm hugely against the lameness that is "3D". Give me holograms or give me death!

Anyways, I thought it was terrific. The beginning was very very sad, and again to convey that emotion with no dialogue is a feat. The jokes were good. I howled at the one where the old man imagines holding the kid below the house on a rope.

I'm not sure if it was better than Wall-E or not. The beginning of Wall-E was some of the most realistic post-apocalyptic images I've ever seen. I think for that alone it was better. Up is still a must see though.

Oh yeah: That airship was freaking sweet.

**TG Latina** · 06-09-2009, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by UnDeaD77

Wall-E is one of my favs. Although, I think the movie could of just ran without the human interaction entirely.

That is mine too. Although I do enjoy the Pixar movies!

Akkurat · 06-10-2009, 08:39 PM

I've only heard good things about Up! I've always liked what Pixar produces, so it looks like I need to head to the movies pretty soon...

stickyjeans69 · 06-10-2009, 08:56 PM

I watched the movie yesterday, I thought it was very good. a very emotional blend, Commedy, Action, Drama. and they did it nearly seemlessly.

I love Kevin <3.

**TG Latina** · 06-10-2009, 09:59 PM

OMG....we watched it too. I took both of my girls and we loved it. We love KEVIN 2. Great movie...

Squirrel!!!!!!! lol

**Damonte** · 06-10-2009, 10:19 PM

My wife and I just saw it, and we loved it. Doug is arguably the most hilarious character. When we saw "dog's playing cards" we both nearly died.

**pinkypig** · 06-10-2009, 11:43 PM

I haven't really paid much attention to this film, but now that everyone is singing praises of it, I shall go watch it

**Zoraster** · 06-11-2009, 12:30 AM

i loved the movie, but didn't think the 3D added much. I find it a gimmick more than anything. I think the picture loses some vibrancy it has in 2D from it... not a lot, mind... just enough that I think spending the extra dollars is only worth it if you're looking for something a bit different... sort of a "might as well" thing for me.

The movie itself is great. The opening minutes are some of the saddest moments I've spent in a theater.

Calvin · 06-20-2009, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Zoraster

The movie itself is great. The opening minutes are some of the saddest moments I've spent in a theater.

This.

also:

Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up'

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HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.

From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.

The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.

The animated movie begins with scenes showing the evolution of a relationship between a husband and wife. After losing his wife in old age, the now grumpy man deals with his loss by attaching thousands of balloons to his house, flying into the sky, and going on an adventure with a little boy.

Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.

With her daughter’s vigil planned for Friday, Lisa Curtin reflected about how grateful she is that Pixar – and "Up" – were a part of her only child’s last day.

“When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie,” said Curtin, 46. “I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven.”

Pixar officials declined to comment on the story or name the employees involved.

THE PREVIEWS

Colby was diagnosed with vascular cancer on Dec. 23, 2005 after doctors found a tumor in her liver. At the time of her death, her stomach was about 94 inches around, swollen with fluids the cancer wouldn’t let her body properly digest. The rest of her body probably weighed about 45 pounds, family friend Carole Lynch said.

Colby had gone to Newport Elementary School and was known for making others laugh, family friend Terrell Orum said. Colby loved to dance, sing, swim and seemed to have a more mature understanding of the world than other children her age, Orum said.

On April 28, Colby went to see the Dream Works 3-D movie "Monsters Vs. Aliens" but was impressed by the previews to "Up."

“It was from then on, she said, ‘I have to see that movie. It is so cool,’” Lynch said.

Colby was a movie fan, Lisa Curtin said, and she latched onto Pixar’s movies because she loved animals.

Two days later Colby’s health began to worsen. On June 4 her mother asked a hospice company to bring a wheelchair for Colby so she could visit a theater to see "Up." However, the weekend went by and the wheelchair was not delivered, Lisa Curtin said.

By June 9, Colby could no longer be transported to a theater and her family feared she would die without having seen the movie.

At that point, Orum, who desperately wanted Colby to get her last wish, began to cold-call Pixar and Disney to see if someone could help.

Pixar has an automated telephone answering system, Orum said, and unless she had a name of a specific person she wanted to speak to, she could not get through. Orum guessed a name and the computer system transferred her to someone who could help, she said.

Pixar officials listened to Colby’s story and agreed to send someone to Colby’s house the next day with a DVD of "Up," Orum recalled.

She immediately called Lisa Curtin, who told Colby.

“Do you think you can hang on?” Colby’s mother said.

“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” the girl replied.

THE MOVIE

At about 12:30 p.m. the Pixar employee came to the Curtins’ home with the DVD.

He had a bag of stuffed animals of characters in the movie and a movie poster. He shared some quirky background details of the movie and the group settled in to watch Up.

Colby couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed so her mother gave her a play-by-play of the film.

At the end of the film, the mother asked if her daughter enjoyed the movie and Colby nodded yes, Lisa Curtin said.

The employee left after the movie, taking the DVD with him, Lynch said.

“He couldn’t have been nicer,” said Lynch who watched the movie with the family. “His eyes were just welled up.”

After the movie, Colby’s dad, Michael Curtin, who is divorced from Lisa Curtin, came to visit.

Colby died with her mom and dad nearby at 9:20 p.m.

Among the Up memorabilia the employee gave Colby was an “adventure book” – a scrap book the main character’s wife used to chronicle her journeys.

“I’ll have to fill those adventures in for her,” Lisa Curtin said.

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